GRE Word List
POTENTIAL
existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality
The meaning of the word potential is existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| clientele | a body of clients |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| dossier | a file containing detailed records on a particular person or subject |
| convex | curved or rounded outward like the exterior of a sphere or circle |
| bilious | of or relating to a yellow or greenish fluid that is secreted by the liver and that aids especially in the emulsification and absorption of fats : of or relating to bile (see bile |
| dinghy | a small boat carried on or towed behind a larger boat as a tender or a lifeboat |
| bicker | petulant quarreling : altercation |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| mischief | a specific injury or damage attributed to a particular agent |